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Scientists Fear “Supervolcano” Eruption As Earthquake Swarm Near Yellowstone Soars To 800<\/a><\/h3>\n
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More than 800 earthquakes have now been recorded at the Yellowstone Caldera, a long-dormant supervolcano located in Yellowstone National Park, over the last two weeks – an ominous sign that a potentially catastrophic eruption could be brewing. However, despite earthquakes occurring at a frequency unseen during any period in the past five years, the US Geological Survey says the risk level remains in the \u201cgreen,\u201d unchanged from its normal levels,<\/strong> according to Newsweek. <\/a><\/p>\n

The biggest earthquake in this \u201cswarm\u201d – which registered a magnitude of 4.4 \u2013 took place on June 15, three days after the rumblings started. That quake was the biggest in the region since a magnitude 4.8 earthquake struck close to Norris Geyser Basin in March 2014.<\/strong> This magnitude 4.4 earthquake was so powerful that people felt it in Bozman Montana, about eight miles away.<\/p>\n

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A scientist from the University of Utah said the quakes have also included five in the magnitude three range, and 68 in the magnitude two range.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe swarm consists of one earthquake in the magnitude 4 range, five earthquakes in the magnitude 3 range, 68 earthquakes in the magnitude 2 range, 277 earthquakes in the magnitude 1 range, 508 earthquakes in the magnitude 0 range, and 19 earthquakes with magnitudes of less than zero,\u201d the latest report said.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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An earthquake with a magnitude less than zero is a very small event that can only be detected with the extremely sensitive instruments used in earthquake monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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The ‘Sunset Lake’ hot spring in Yellowstone National Park.<\/em><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

There is normally a rise in seismic activity before a volcano erupts. And scientists currently believe there\u2019s a 10% chance that a \u201csupervolcanic Category 7 eruption\u201d could take place this century, as pointed out by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku.<\/strong><\/p>\n

An eruption, Kaku said, is long overdue: The last one occurred 640,000 years ago..<\/p>\n

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Scientists Fear “Supervolcano” Eruption As Earthquake Swarm Near Yellowstone Soars To 800 More than 800 earthquakes have now been recorded at the Yellowstone Caldera, a long-dormant supervolcano located in Yellowstone National Park, over the last two weeks – an ominous sign that a potentially catastrophic eruption could be brewing. However, despite earthquakes occurring at a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[15464,15392,4318],"class_list":["post-24300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-supervolcano","tag-yellowstone","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24300"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24301,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24300\/revisions\/24301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}